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affiuities of Eozoon. These researches are so well known that they have gained for 

 Dr. Dawson a world-wide reputation ; and it is as a slight mark of their esteem, 

 and their high appreciation of his labours, that the Council have awarded to him this 

 Medal, which I will request you to forward to him, with some verbal expression of 

 the feeling with which it is offered. 



Mr. Warington W. Smyth then read a letter from Dr. Dawson regretting he 

 was unable personally to be present, and expressing his sense of the honour con- 

 ferred upon him. 



The President then handed the Bigsby Medal to Prof. Morris, 

 F.G.S., for transmission to Dr. Charles Barrois, and addressed him 

 as follows : — 



The Council of this Society has selected Dr. Charles Barrois to be the recipient of 

 the Bigsby Medal, and have awarded it to him for his numerous papers and con- 

 tributions to geological science. Dr. Barrois's chief or most important work 

 (written in the year 1876, and published at Lille) is ' Recherches sm- le terrain 

 cretace superieur de I'Angleterre et de I'lrlaude,' a production almost exhaustive in 

 its description of the Cretaceous rocks of England and Ireland, and of the utmost 

 value to linglish students of geology. Dr. Barrois in this work has been the first to 

 attempt to arrange the English Cretaceous rocks in Palseontological zones, and 

 eminently has he succeeded in defining and correlating the horizons of France and 

 Britain. He is also the author of a ' Memoire sur le terrain Cretace du Bassin 

 d'Oviedo, Espagne,' with a palseontological description of the Echinodermata by 

 Gustave Cotteau. His great industry and untiring zeal for geological science entitle 

 him to the consideration of the Council ; and I therefore beg you to forward to him 

 the Bigsby Medal as our recognition of his services, and, according to the wishes of 

 the founder, we look forward to other and equally valuable contributions. 



Prof. Morris read a note from Dr. Barrois, in reply, to the honour conferred. 

 In handing to Prof. J. W. Judd, F.E.S., Sec. G.S., the balance of 

 the Wollaston Donation Fund for transmission to Dr. Eamsay H. 

 Traquair, F.G.S., the President said : — 



In handing to you, to be forwarded to Dr. Traquair, the balance of the proceeds of 

 the Wollaston Donation Fund, I have to request that you will inform him of the 

 feeling of the Council, that it is rarely that they can have the opportunity of 

 awarding this fund to a more able and accomplished naturalist than himself. His 

 long-continued researches upon the Ganoid Fishes of the Carboniferous formation 

 have rendered his name eminent in this department of Pala3ontology. As an 

 accomplished anatomist and zoologist, we must have every confidence that his treat- 

 ment of these Vertebrates in the memoir which he is contributing to the publications 

 of the PaliBontographical Society will be of the most careful and judicious 

 description, whilst the value of this and his other works is vastly enhanced by the 

 beautiful figures with which he illustrates them. Under these circumstances it atfords 

 me much pleasiure to place in your hands, for transmission to Dr. Traquau-, the 

 balance of the Wollaston Fund, which I hope he will receive as some recognition on 

 the part of the Society of the value of his researches, and, at the same time, as 

 a small aid to him in further prosecuting them. 



Prof. Judd, in reply, read an appropriate note received from Dr. Traquair, 

 cordially thanking the Society. 



The President next presented the balance of the proceeds of the 

 Mnrchison Donation Fund to Frank Kutlet, Esq., F.G.S. , and 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



For many years you have devoted your time and attention to the microscopical 

 structiure of rocks and rock-forming minerals, a branch of scientific research of the 

 highest importance to the petrologist and geologist ; and now that our attention is 

 being so much drawn to the structure of the metamorphic and igneous rocks, with a 

 view to a better nomenclature and a revision of old and obsolete views, the Council 

 of our Society believed that in your hands good work would still be carried on ; they, 

 therefore, have awarded to you the balance of the Mnrchison Fund, which I have 

 much pleasure in handing to you in recognition of your past researches, the results 

 of which you have from time to time communicated to the Journal of the Society, 

 Few are more aware than myself of the interest you take in this branch of study, 



